Tag: Ecology/Environment

Bold great tits lay their eggs earlier when under threat, the shy ones put it off. Such personality differences help ...

Credit: (Photos: Matthias Tschumi) Hedges, flowering strips and other seminatural habitats provide food and nesting places for insects and birds ...

Dubbed as 'the most talked about paper', the cautionary publication is suggested to have omitted a non-western view on inequality ...

Professor Stefan Mecking, Chair of Chemical Materials Science at the University of Konstanz, receives an Advanced Grant from the European ...

Credit: Jonathan Panduro Findalen/Greenpeace Tests of Europe's rivers and canals have revealed more than 100 pesticides - including 24 that ...

Svalbard reindeer adapt to dramatic climate change in a way that may foreshadow the future for other arctic speciesCredit: Erik ...

Credit: UAF photo by Todd Paris A new paper shows that air temperature is the "smoking gun" behind climate change ...

Credit: Daniel Field. New research by a global team of scientists has resulted in significant strides in ornithological classification and ...

Credit: Bernadette M. Mach & Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky St. Paul, MN (April, 2019)--Bees are critical members of ...

PITTSBURGH (April 5, 2019) -- Two professors at the University of Pittsburgh received an NSF Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant ...

Weedy rice is neither wild rice nor crop rice, but rice gone rogue that has shed some traits important to ...

Credit: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.1882 Dubbed the 'honeypot effect' -- a team of scientists from around Australia have shown that providing woody habitat, ...

A new modelling study from the University of Oxford and collaborators has estimated how changing the reflectivity of roofs can ...

The JPIO project MiningImpact investigates deep-sea ecosystems in the central Pacific OceanCredit: Steffen Niemann The area to be investigated by ...

Male chimpanzees reduce aggression when social relationships in their group are unstableCredit: © Anna Preis A high social status has ...

A large section of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which is home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research ...

Study by the University of Bonn shows how the effectiveness of the National Forest Conservation Program could be increasedCredit: © ...

Findings reveal how plants respond to key nutrient in fertilizer A team of biologists and computer scientists has mapped out ...

Credit: Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni On the Hawaiian island of Oahu, it is possible to stand in a lush tropical forest that ...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce its 2019 Fellows. The Society's fellowship program recognizes the many ...